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426. Personal History

John 18:1-11

Sermon

David J. Kalas

... It lacks elegance, however. Still, of course, it is the truth, not the language, that we might well proclaim on this day. As we observed earlier, this day carries with it a very specific picture. We have seen that picture so many times — perhaps thousands of times — in art, in movies, in passion plays, and on and on. And so when we read the detailed account in our long passage from John’s gospel, we are not left without vivid images in our mind’s eye. Take those scenes from John and make them into a ...

427. Skull Hill

John 12:20-36

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... you ever saw the weird, but romantic, classic movie “Ghost.” Demi Moore plays an artist. She sculpts, she paints, she works with clay. When her sweetheart, played by Patrick Swayze, joins her at the potter’s wheel while she is creating a new piece of art, the loving relationship between the clay and the artist is much more than making mud pies. The spinning, shape-shifting clay becomes a celebration of their life and the love they share. Being a Christian is not a “something-to-do-on-Thursday-night ...

428. Who Is Right

Luke 18:9-14

Sermon

James Merritt

... certainly did not want to be a part of theirs. Then, he looks in the mirror and begins to sing, “How Great Thou Art.” “God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.I fast twice ... t, and who he was. You see, the problem was when he looked in the mirror he shouldn’t have been singing “How Great Thou Art”. He should have been singing, “You’re So Vain.” This man thought that you could look in two directions at the same time, but ...

429. Poem: Fidele's Dirge

Eulogy

William Shakespeare

... gone and ta’en thy wages: Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust. Fear no more the frown o’ the great, Thou art past the tyrant’s stroke; Care no more to clothe and eat; To thee the reed is as the oak: The sceptre, learning, physic, must All follow this, and come to dust. Fear no more the lightning-flash Nor the all-dreaded thunder-stone; Fear not slander, censure rash; Thou ...

430. Still in the Crates

Illustration

Michael P. Green

The great newspaper publisher of the early part of this century, William Randolph Hearst, was a patron of art and spent a great deal of money collecting art treasures for his collection. The story is told that one day he found a description of an artwork that he felt he must own, so he sent his agent abroad to find it. After months of searching, the agent reported that he had found the treasured object and that it ...

431. The Tabernacle

Exodus 26:1-37

Understanding Series

James K. Bruckner

... was a holy place, but not the most holy place. The text adds that it is the work of a weaver of colors (known as a “variegator”). The NIV has work of an embroiderer, as do other translations, but embroidery and weaving color are not the same art. The text mentions the description of this workmanship six times (v. 36; 27:16; 28:39; 36:37; 38:18; 39:29). Oholiab was the master weaver, skilled in weaving colored patterns into fabric (38:23). The details for making gold hooks for the entrance screen and ...

432. A Grayhound and a Kite

Acts 2:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... week prepared to receive a life-changing encounter with God’s Spirit. I hope you come anticipating a God-thing occurring in your own life. Author Anthony De Mello tells a story that I think is particularly appropriate for Pentecost. It is about a man who invented the art of making fire. The man took his tools and went to a tribe in the north, where it was very cold, bitterly cold. He taught the people there to make fire. The people were very interested. He showed them the uses to which they could put fire ...

433. A Widow at the End of Her Rope

1 Kings 17:7-24

Sermon

King Duncan

... for the plight of poor people in our society, and the battles they face, is certainly not a friend of Jesus. Jesus was full of compassion for such people. During years of interviewing children for his TV program House Party, the late Art Linkletter occasionally interviewed an underprivileged child. Mr. Linkletter himself grew up in a poor family. He writes in his book Kids Say the Darnest Things! that if the church hadn’t donated dinners to his family, holidays such as Thanksgiving and Christmas would ...

434. Offerings for Priests and Levites

Deuteronomy 18:1-8

Understanding Series

Christopher J. H. Wright

... others, to harm others and ward off the harm others may aim at oneself. Alienated from the living God, humans devise the dark arts of verses 10b–11 for such purposes. Their effect is usually to compound the fear that led to their being practiced in the ... give, God who would address God’s own people with words of warning and encouragement. Prophecy, unlike all the divinatory arts aforementioned, would not be what humans could discover, but what God would reveal. Secondly, true prophecy would follow God’s ...

435. Ezekiel's Call

Ezekiel 1:1-28, Ezekiel 2:1-3:15, Ezekiel 3:16-27

Understanding Series

Steven Tuell

... ideas need not correspond to our sense of logic (see R. R. Wilson, “Prophecy in Crisis: The Call of Ezekiel,” in Interpreting the Prophets [ed. J. L. Mays and P. J. Achtemeier; Philadelphia: Fortress, 1987], p. 163). For depictions of similar creatures in ancient Near Eastern art see L. Allen, Ezekiel 1–19 (WBC 28; Dallas: Word, 1994), pp. 27–37. Ezekiel’s vision of the Glory of the Lord has influenced the description of the Lord’s chariot throne in Dan. 7:9–10, as well as in the Songs of the ...

436. The Birth of God’s Son Announced

Luke 1:26-38

Teach the Text

R.T. France

... and honestly. But at the same time, we must remember that Luke’s emphasis is not primarily on apologetic concerns but on the grandeur of the angel’s message. Illustrating the Text Art: Ecce Ancilla Domini, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Among the dozens of splendid annunciation scenes in Western art, this one (“Behold the Handmaid of the Lord”) by the English poet and illustrator Rossetti (1828–82) is considered especially beautiful. It pictures Gabriel standing and Mary seated. Gabriel is holding out ...

437. Affluence and the Afterlife

Luke 16:19-31

Teach the Text

R.T. France

... Here is Martin, the Roman soldier who is not baptized; he has clad me.”2 Several great works of art show details of the story. Among the most famous is one by the Spanish painter El Greco (1541–1614), St. Martin and the Beggar (ca. 1597–99), ... which hangs in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. In the painting, Martin is seated on a white horse and looks down at the partially clothed beggar, who looks ...

438. Resurrection and Christian Living

1 Corinthians 15:12-34

Teach the Text

Preben Vang

... forever when God restores his creation to himself (15:53–54; cf. 1 Thess. 4:16–18). Illustrating the Text The Christian hope is a bodily resurrection, of which Christ is the firstfruits—not a disembodied state of an immortal soul. Art: Present several examples of art that purports to depict heaven. Ask your listeners to reflect or comment on the type of state being pictured. Point out that a lot of our ideas about heaven are not biblical, or are misinterpretations of apocalyptic imagery in books like ...

439. The Conclusion

Revelation 22:7-21

Teach the Text

J. Scott Duvall

... 15:36; Heb. 13:12–13). Those excluded from God’s presence are labeled “dogs,” a derogatory term for a wicked, impure person that sometimes carries sexual connotations (e.g., a euphemism for a male homosexual prostitute in Deut. 23:18). The vice list includes magic arts, murder, idolatry, falsehood, and sexual immorality.4 22:16 I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give you this testimony for the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, and the bright Morning Star.In the last of the “I am ...

440. Punishments for Sin

Leviticus 20:1-27

Teach the Text

Joe M. Sprinkle

... its sanction. In the book of Revelation behaviors found in Leviticus 20 are also condemned, but the sanction, though severe, comes from God, not from humans: “But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death” (Rev. 21:8). Revelation 22:15 reiterates: “Outside [the heavenly city] are the dogs [term used of male prostitutes in ...

441. Preparations for Worship (Part 1)

Numbers 7:1-89

Teach the Text

Joe M. Sprinkle

... gifts to God should not be despised. If given out of genuine devotion, they are welcomed by the Lord as an act of worship, just as the gifts of the tribal leaders were well received. Illustrating the Text Our gifts can enhance worship. Art: One of the treasures of church art is the Ghent Altarpiece. It was commissioned by Jodocus Vijd and his wife, Elizabeth Vorluut, for a chapel that the couple had financed for the parish church of St. John.13 Produced in the 1400s by Flemish artists Hubert and Jan van ...

442. “In the Lord I Take Refuge”

Psalm 11:1-7

Teach the Text

C. Hassell Bullock

... is a story about Hudson Taylor, missionary to China, who, during the Boxer Rebellion at the end of the nineteenth century, sat at his desk, knowing that other mission stations had been destroyed, singing these words: Jesus, I am resting, resting, in the joy of what Thou art; I am finding out the greatness of Thy loving heart. Thou hast bid me gaze upon Thee, and Thy beauty fills my soul, for by Thy transforming power Thou hast made me whole.5 Bible: David and Goliath. We see in this psalm of David, as well ...

443. Moses and Aaron Confront Pharaoh

Exodus 6:28–7:13

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... realm. Pharaoh’s court included magicians and sorcerers, most likely members of the priestly caste and teachers of wisdom. There is evidence of Egyptian magical practices that involved turning rods into snakes (Westcar Papyrus). The initial signs performed by Moses and Aaron are imitated by those who dabble in the arts of magic and deception and who appeal to the darker supernatural powers that keep the people in blindness. The root of the Hebrew word translated “by their secret ...

444. Learning to Love

Matthew 5:43-48

Sermon

James L. Killen

... have a good idea of what love is. Some time ago, a psychologist named Erich Fromm wrote a book on The Art of Loving (New York: Harper and Row, 1956), and he said that we must learn to love. He said that we need to first learn the principles, and then we need ... to practice them just like someone learning an art. If we want to learn to love, the first thing we need is to get a really good idea of what love is and of what ...

445. Giving and Receiving

Matthew 14:22-33

Sermon

Tom Garrison

... use a crisis "to gain a heart of wisdom," as the Psalmist puts it, to learn where we are and how we need to grow. You and you alone can determine the particular shape the challenge assesses for you. It may be to learn how to float — master the art of receiving and being helped and the joy of gratitude that comes with that. Or it may be learning to swim — assuming your part of the load at last and learning the joy of creativity and helping. Or it may be the acquiring of wisdom — discerning what time it ...

446. The Trumpets

Revelation 8:6--9:21

Understanding Series

Robert W. Wall

... the great river Euphrates. This group of four angels is not the same as that which earlier had held back “the four winds of the earth” (7:1). Rather these four angels … are bound, suggesting to some commentators that they are evil and experts in the art of destruction to which they are now called by God. Their captivity, however, is not the result of prior evils; rather, they had been kept … and were released to kill a third of mankind. The passive voice of the verbs John employs presumes that these ...

447. The Fall of Babylon

Revelation 18:1-24

Understanding Series

Robert W. Wall

... . The couplet that declares music … will never be heard in you again/No workman of any trade will be found in you again captures a profound theological sentiment. The stilling of the creative arts tells of God’s absence (cf. Isa. 5:12; 24:8). The creator God’s presence has always been felt and acknowledged through the creative arts of God’s creatures in testimony of the Lord’s rule over creation (cf. Rev. 4:11). Since Babylon has become a “home for demons,” the light of a lamp will never shine ...

448. Job's Third Reply to Bildad

Job 26:1--31:40

Understanding Series

Gerald H. Wilson

... underlining Bildad’s failure (and that of the other friends as well) to address the needs of those with whom Job has been driven by circumstance to cast his lot: the powerless and feeble. The poetic structure of these verses employs artful parallel and a final chiastic twist. Each verse begins with the interrogative meh or mah, “What? How?” followed by a second-person singular perfect verb indicating Bildad’s ineffectiveness, and then proceeds to a negative prepositional phrase describing the object ...

449. The Image of Gold and the Fiery Furnace

Daniel 3:1-30

Understanding Series

William Nelson

... 3:19), which is ridiculous because the flames are already lethal. Raising the temperature will not make the men any more dead, but it will have the unintended consequence of destroying some of the king’s own soldiers (3:22). This is part of the storyteller’s art as he portrays the king as a buffoon. The king then has the three Jews bound and thrown into the burning furnace (3:20). They are cast into the furnace wearing their robes, trousers, turbans and other clothes (3:21). Once again we encounter the ...

450. Daniel’s Dream of Four Beasts

Daniel 7:1-14

Understanding Series

William Nelson

... There are other differences as well in the details of Daniel’s beasts, such as wings. Daniel may also be drawing on the art and iconography of the ancient Near East, where images of hybrid creatures were quite common, especially in Mesopotamia (see ANEP, pp. 212–13 ... readers these are separate species, created after their kind. It is true that demons are represented in ancient Near Eastern art as hybrid animals, but in the Bible so are heavenly beings. The cherubim are winged beings with animal bodies and ...

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